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HomeschoolLedger: a homeschool record keeping app for parents
Log the year while it happens so June is not a week of remembering.
HomeschoolLedger is a homeschool record keeping app for parents who log attendance and hours, keep a portfolio for each subject, and build a transcript. Your records stay yours, in one place, from kindergarten through the last year of high school.
Waitlist Not built yet Updated 5 September 2026
What problem does HomeschoolLedger solve?
You teach the day, and then the day is gone. The reading happened on the sofa, the science was a creek and a jar, and the math was a workbook page and a conversation about fractions. None of it wrote itself down. Weeks later you sit with a blank log and try to reconstruct which Tuesday the museum trip fell on. The second squeeze arrives when a teenager wants to apply somewhere. A transcript needs course titles, credits, and grades, and those come from four years of work you never turned into records. Photos of a lab notebook are on an old phone. The co-op class that should count as a credit exists as a group chat and a receipt. Your own state and district set what you have to keep, and you find that out under time pressure, in June, with a form open in one tab.
Attendance and hours sheet
A printable weekly sheet for attendance, hours by subject, and a line about what each lesson actually was.
| Date | Student | Subject | Hours | Activity | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Free to use. No account. Nothing you type here is stored.
What would HomeschoolLedger do?
HomeschoolLedger would hold the year while you live it. You mark attendance from a phone in a second, and log hours against a subject with a note about what you actually did. A photo of a finished page, a project, or a field trip ticket attaches to that subject and stays there. Each student gets a portfolio you can page through by subject or by month, so an evaluation or a portfolio review becomes a matter of choosing what to show rather than hunting for it. For high school, courses carry titles, credits, grades, and a description you write once. The transcript pulls from those courses and prints. You decide what your family needs to record, and the ledger holds it: nothing here assumes rules that may not be yours.
How would it work?
- 1Mark attendance and log hours against a subject, with a line about what the lesson actually was.
- 2Photograph work samples and drop them into the right subject portfolio as you go.
- 3Add each high school course once, with its title, credits, grade, and description.
- 4Print a transcript, a portfolio summary, or an hours log whenever someone asks to see one.
Who is it for?
- A parent teaching two children at home who rebuilds the year's log from memory every spring.
- A family with a tenth grader who needs a transcript before applications open.
- A co-op organizer who tracks hours for several families and hands each one their records.
How do you keep a homeschool attendance tracker and a portfolio without an app?
Start with one page per week, not one page per day. A daily form gets abandoned by October. Draw six columns on a sheet: date, subject, hours, what we did, what it produced, and a box to tick for attendance. Fill it at the end of the day while the kettle boils, in fragments, not sentences. "Fractions, workbook page 41, plus pizza slices" is a better record than a paragraph you never wrote. Put the sheet in a binder with twelve dividers, one per month, and clip that week's paper artifacts behind it: the graded page, the map, the ticket stub from the aquarium. Anything flat goes in the binder. Anything not flat gets photographed the day it happens, because a volcano does not survive until June. Name the photos the moment you take them. Use a folder per student per year, then subfolders by subject, and file names that start with the date, like 2026-09-05-biology-leaf-dissection. This is the single habit that makes a portfolio usable later, and it takes four seconds. For a teenager, open a separate page per course now, at the start of the course, not at the end. Write the course title, the main text or curriculum, a one-paragraph description, how you will grade, and a running list of major work. That page becomes a transcript line and a course description without any reconstruction. Once a month, sit for fifteen minutes with the binder and the log. Total the hours per subject, tick off the weeks, and note anything missing while you still remember it. Then read your own state and district rules again and check your records against them, because those rules, not this page, decide what you actually need to keep.
What do people use today?
| Option | Good at | The gap |
|---|---|---|
| A paper notebook or a wall calendar | Free, immediate, and honest, because you write the day down while it is still today. | Nothing totals hours by subject, and a lost notebook takes the whole year with it. |
| A spreadsheet you built yourself | Totals hours per subject and per student, and costs nothing but one evening. | Photos of work do not live in cells, and transcript formatting turns into a second project. |
| All-in-one homeschool planning software | Lesson plans, assignments, and grades for families who plan the year in advance. | Planning is the front door; the record of what actually happened comes out as a report. |
| An umbrella school or a paid record-keeping service | Someone else holds the records and already knows the local paperwork. | Costs more per year and ties your family's history to their system and their rules. |
What would it cost?
Free
$0
- One student
- Attendance, hours, and a photo portfolio
- Printable hours sheet
Family
$5/mo
- Up to six students
- Course records with credits and grades
- Transcript and portfolio printing
- Yearly archive you can export
Co-op
$19/mo
- Everything in Family
- Hours logged by a class leader for many families
- Each family keeps their own copy
Prices are proposed. Founding members lock in the lowest price if we build HomeschoolLedger.
Questions people ask
What is a homeschool record keeping app?
A homeschool record keeping app stores what a homeschooling family may need later: attendance days, hours by subject, samples of work, and course records for high school. HomeschoolLedger would keep those in one place and print an hours sheet, a portfolio, or a transcript when someone asks.
Does HomeschoolLedger know my state's homeschool requirements?
No, and it would not pretend to. Requirements differ by state and by district, and they change. You check your own rules, then set the ledger up to hold whatever those rules ask for: days, hours, subjects, work samples, or none of them.
Can it produce a transcript for college applications?
Yes, that is the plan. Courses you enter through the year carry a title, credits, a grade, and a description. The transcript generator arranges them by year and prints a clean page, with course descriptions alongside it if a school asks for those.
How does a portfolio work for a child who does not use worksheets?
Photographs carry it. A shelf of finished models, a page of a nature journal, a video of a recital: you photograph the thing, tag the subject, and add a line about what happened. The portfolio becomes a month-by-month record instead of a stack of paper.
What happens to my records if I stop paying?
Your records export as a folder of files and a PDF of every printed sheet, and the export works on the free plan too. Nothing is held hostage. A family that homeschools for twelve years should not end up renting its own history.
Can two parents or a co-op teacher log the same student?
Yes. A student can have more than one adult logging hours, and every entry shows who wrote it. Co-op plans let a class leader record hours for several families at once, and each family keeps their own copy of what was logged.
When will HomeschoolLedger launch?
There is no date. HomeschoolLedger would be built only if enough homeschooling families join this waitlist and say they would pay for it. Joining costs nothing, and the printable attendance and hours sheet on this page is free either way.
Where does this stand?
HomeschoolLedger is a proposal, not a product. This page collects demand from search and answer engines. Askwright builds it only if enough people join the waitlist and say they would pay. Read how this works.
Education rules differ by state and district. Check your own before relying on any requirement, hour count, or deadline mentioned here.